Crossroads

Chapter 351

“Dominick, what the hell gives you the right to

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-un like this?” me up

The room was roughly 300 square feet, without windows or a balcony, a completely sealed box. The center of the room was divided by a thick glass wall. Inside the high–density, bulletproof glass wall, Courney was like a caged animal, furiously pounding on the glass, shouting and cursing.

“Ms. Peterson, you’d better calm down and cooperate with us.

The guard’s voice, low and menacing, came from behind the alloy electronic door to the right of the glass wall.

“Go fuck yourself! Get me out of here, now!”

Courtney was frantic, kicking the glass with a deafening boom.

The whole space felt suffocating, making it impossible to think straight. The walls glowed an ominous red, adding to the sense of agitation and uncase. Courtney’s clothes were tom, her hair a mess, her eyes blazing with hatred.

She screamed with all her might, pounding her fists in frustration. “Dominick, what the hell are you trying to pull! You better watch your step, goddammit, or Ill kill your precious Stephaniel

“Let me out of here! What gives you the right to lock me up! Fuck, let me gor

“What reason do you think I have to detain you?” Dominick, sitting directly across from her, finally spoke, his face contorted in anger.

Courtney glared back, eyes blazing with rage. “You fucking monster! You’ll get what’s coming to you, you hear me? Dominick, don’t think you’re Invincible. Someone will take you down eventually

Her relentless rant didn’t faze him. He was simply growing tired of her.

“Gary is awake,” Dominick suddenly said

to shock and then silence

Courtney’s

seemed to give in, adjusting her emotions as she asked him with

dripping with sarcasm. “What could the heir of the Wellington family possibly not know? You brought me here to interrogate me, and it turns out there are things you don’t know… It’s amazing

darker and more menacing as he

it you?” he asked directly, his patience wearing thin.

stopped as she looked at him.

and adjusting her hair with a proud tilt of her chin. “So, it’s about Stephanie again,” she said with

in his facial expression Courtney knew that every time she

getting close to her? Courtney regained her usual calm composure and asked him, running her fingers through her

deep eyes. “Did you have anything to do with what happened to her when she was

a very proud woman and didn’t want to answer his question. Suddenly, she noticed a hint of panic hidden in the depths of his eyes,

someone as cold and ruthless as Dominick was starting

who tore your family apart. Your dad almost divorced your mom, Mary,

the golden boy, was perfect, too perfect. The problem was that he was also cruel, secretive, and intense, not exactly husband material

determined to see just how deep his secrets ran, a mocking

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Chapter 351

and found a man of her own. She even teamed up with him to abduct you. Poor little Dominick, only five years

as if words of fury were about to spill out. His fists

breath, he gritted his teeth and forced his

of the abducting case in

could only carry him so far. The sounds of pursuit thundered behind him. Did he feel fear? He couldn’t remember. All he could recall was the coldness, chilling to the bone. The cold made his wounds throb and itch, their edges raw and swollen. His whole

end, he miraculously escaped from the abductors. When the Wellingtons found him, his clothes were tattered, his body covered in bloodstains,

grandfather had sensed something off about the abducting and eventually. found the perpetrators, but they were

didn’t know that the mastermind behind his abduction

of it, and time buried it deep. His father eventually reconciled with his mother, who remained the dignified lady of

he began to